Posts tagged with "sexual harassment"

October 14th, 2018By Zeba Siddiqui
Indian minister M.J. Akbar described multiple allegations of sexual harassment against him as "wild and baseless" on Sunday and added he plans to take legal action against the women who have made the accusations.
The comments by Akbar, 67, follow widespread calls on social media for his resignation from his post as...

October 10th, 2018Harsher penalties are needed if we are to show zero tolerance towards sexual harassment, said children’s organisation Hope for Children on Wednesday, following the 12-month sentence imposed on a teacher found guilty of sexually harassing underage female students.
Following a lengthy trial of many months, which took place behind...

September 17th, 2018A woman who had anonymously accused President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual misconduct in the early 1980s went public on Sunday, prompting Republicans to plan further discussions about his nomination before a committee vote this week.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Christine Blasey...

September 10th, 2018Leslie Moonves, the top executive at CBS Corp since 2006 and a major figure at the broadcast network and media company for more than two decades, resigned on Sunday amid a new wave of allegations against him of sexual assault and harassment.
His departure as chairman, CEO and president was confirmed by the company in a statement...

August 21st, 2018Italian actress Asia Argento, an outspoken advocate in the movement against sexual harassment, denied on Tuesday ever having had sexual relations with Jimmy Bennett, an actor who the New York Times reported had accused her of sexual assault.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that Bennett had accused Argento of sexually assaulting...

July 11th, 2018Ombudswoman Maria Lottides presented on Wednesday a code of conduct her office has prepared to prevent and deal with sexual harassment within the civil service.
She said at present her office is looking into eight sexual harassment cases which have been pending since 2015 and highlighted how the courts have previously taken the...

May 24th, 2018A primary school teacher in Limassol has been reported for allegedly sexually harassing a student but the state has been unable to do anything but transfer him to another school, according to Disy MP Efthymios Diplaros.
In a press conference on Thursday, Diplaros said he sought to make public two cases he was aware of, in a bid to...

March 28th, 2018By Andria Kades
A priest who served time in prison for sexually harassing his foster daughter, Elena Frantzi, defended himself on Wednesday following a huge onslaught of disgust after the young woman was found dead in her home last week.
The priest, identified as Father Stylianos, said in a radio interview that what has happened is...

March 20th, 2018Workplace sexual harassment is a frequent phenomenon in Cyprus with most victims being women but only a small number reports the issue, the committee for gender equality in employment and vocational training said on Tuesday.
The committee told a news conference that a code of conduct on sexual harassment will be implemented soon in both...

March 5th, 2018South Korea's capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the country's hope for a Nobel Prize in literature, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the government is considering removing his work from textbooks.
Ko Un, 84, who denied any "habitual misconduct" in a statement made through his British publisher, first faced...

February 4th, 2018The term feminist is as versatile as an egg. What is a feminist? A woman who believes all those who don’t think as she does are wrong? Who believes women are superior to men? Or simply that equality is what matters in status, pay and respect. Package me with the latter.
Women have been split into two camps because of recent...

January 10th, 2018Catherine Deneuve and other critics of the #Metoo movement against sexual harassment sound like "the tiresome uncle at the family dinner" who does not understand that the world is changing, leading French feminists said on Wednesday.
Deneuve and 99 other women on Tuesday signed a column in the newspaper Le Monde that argued that the...

November 26th, 2017By Helen Sage
The week that the Harvey Weinstein story surfaced, I immediately thought – as I guess many women did – of the personal injustices I had endured as a woman.
I thought back to Saturday and Sunday evenings in Paphos on holiday with my family. On hot summer nights after dinner, families would promenade from the castle...

November 13th, 2017Hundreds of people marched in the heart of Hollywood on Sunday to support victims of sexual assault and harassment, inspired by a social media campaign that has portrayed such abuse as a pervasive feature of American life.
The #MeToo march and rally followed a relentless series of accusations by men and women who said they were...

November 11th, 2017Comedian Louis C.K. admitted on Friday to engaging in sexual misconduct as recounted by several women, three of whom said he had masturbated in front of them, and television and film companies moved quickly to sever ties.
"These stories are true," C.K. said in a statement.
Five women detailed incidents of sexually inappropriate...

November 10th, 2017By Piya Sinha-Roy
Five women detailed sexual misconduct allegations against Emmy-winning comedian Louis C.K. in a New York Times report published Thursday, including three who said he had masturbated in front of them.
In the New York Times article, C.K.'s publicist Lewis Kay said the comedian "is not going to answer any questions"...

November 2nd, 2017British Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to appoint a new defence minister on Thursday after her loyal ally Michael Fallon quit in a sexual harassment scandal that has prompted calls for an end to the "locker room" culture in parliament.
Just hours after Fallon resigned over past behaviour he said had fallen "below the high...

October 30th, 2017Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into a report that one of her ministers asked a female secretary to buy sex toys for him, as she tries to tackle a culture of sexual harassment in politics.
Mark Garnier, a junior international trade minister, asked secretary Caroline Edmondson to buy two sex toys and he also...

October 18th, 2017The torrent of stories of sexual harassment and assault in the wake of claims about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein could help propel campaigns to make sextortion illegal, according to activists trying to change laws in the United States.
Sextortion - a form of extortion that involves sexual acts or images as its currency - is not...

July 31st, 2017
A 55-year-old restaurant manager was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday after being found guilty for the sexual abuse of his female staff.
The 55-year-old sexually harassed a number of women working as waitresses at the restaurant. The offences took place between 2013 and 2015, when he was the manager of a...

June 28th, 2017The labour ministry is determined to stamp out and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Wednesday.
Addressing an event on the issue, Emilianidou said that her ministry remains focused on its commitment for the effective application of the law on equal treatment between men and women in...

February 20th, 2017The chief executive of Uber Technologies Inc has ordered an "urgent investigation" into claims of sexual harassment at the ride-hailing service company made by a former employee.
Susan Fowler, an engineer who left Uber in December, wrote in a blog post that she was subjected to sexual advances through a 'string of messages' over the...

January 13th, 2017THE stepfather and mother of a 14-year-old girl were remanded in custody for eight days on Friday in connection with her sexual harassment.
The stepfather, 48, was arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing the girl during the past four years. Her 36-year-old mother was detained after police were told that she knew about the abuse...

October 27th, 2016A 36-year-old Paphos man was remanded in custody for six days on Thursday in connection with sexually harassing a six-year-old girl.
The man was arrested on Wednesday afternoon.
Reports, quoting police sources, said that the suspect has admitted the offence.

August 29th, 2016Taxpayers will have to foot €22,000 in moral damages awarded to a female civil servant who sued her head of the department for sexual harassment and the state for failing to protect her after the fact.
The application was filed in the Paphos labour court in 2009. It concerned offences committed in the first half of 2006.
The...

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